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Shearing vs Shearling - What's the difference?

shearing | shearling |

As nouns the difference between shearing and shearling

is that shearing is the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth while shearling is a sheep that has been shorn for the first time.

As an adjective shearing

is tending to cut or tear.

As a verb shearing

is present participle of lang=en.

shearing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Tending to cut or tear.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
  • The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.
    • the whole shearing''' of a flock; the '''shearings from cloth
  • .
    • (Youatt)
  • (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
  • The act or operation of dividing with shears.
    • the shearing of metal plates
  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  • (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
    • (Webster 1913)

    shearling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
  • * {{quote-book, 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Isles, , page=97
    • , passage=They are rarely fattened when shearlings , the usual period being after they have lost their second fleece, and are wethers. }}
  • (chiefly, US) A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth
    • Her coat was lined with shearling.

    Coordinate terms

    * roughy * clippy * wether * hog

    See also

    * (wikipedia "shearling")

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